Sweetsearch.com - How to remove

Sweetsearch.com is a website created by Dulcinea Media, Inc, that is presented as a search engine for students. It, in fact, looks like a regular search engine and additionally offers the ‘News’ and ‘History’ options, however, malicious features are hiding behind the simplistic cover, that users don’t know anything about. Sweetsearch.com because of its vicious activities classifies as a Browser hijacker and should be removed immediately after the infection.

Sweetsearch.com virus can infect any type of browser whether it’s Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera or Safari. It gets into your PC without a notice, installs as a browser extension and modifies your default settings while recording personal data. If you want to learn more how to get rid of this malware, please, keep reading our article.

What is SweetSearch.com browser hijacker and how does it work?

This annoying SweetSearch virus infiltrates using bundling methods, just like AdoreSearch or Certified Toolbar, so basically, you will install it on your system while setting up some other programs. Once inside, Sweetsearch.com will be set as your homepage and default search provider. It can be very irritating, especially when most of us are used to certain engines that we take time to adjust to our needs and make browsing process smoother. Our Google, Yahoo, Bing or Duck Duck Go get changed to a suspicious looking Sweetsearch.com just in a blink of an eye. What is more, the search results on Sweetsearch.com are not very accurate. The program includes tons of sponsored websites to the search results making you click on them. You should know that these websites can contain malicious threats so you can get your system infected.

Just like in other browser hijackers, the creators of Sweetsearch.com collect information about what websites you are visiting and even record everything that you enter on the Internet through their search engine. This means that your passwords, credentials, age, geographic location, system’s information can be revealed and shared with third parties. Primarily your personal data is shared with third parties to improve the advertising, so you would see offers which most likely will appeal to you and you would be tempted to click on the ad to use it, yet you never know when the rest collected information can serve hackers for more malicious activities.

Dulcinea Media in the SweetSearch.com Privacy Policy state:

We or our third party advertisers use cookies on this Web site to gather certain anonymous information automatically about our users and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.

As you can tell, it is not safe to have this program on your system under any circumstances. Remove Sweetsearch.com from your computer immediately after detecting it on your system.

How to delete SweetSearch.com virus?

While SweetSearch.com may not be the most dangerous threat in the cyber world, if left unattended for a longer period can cause pretty serious problems. Since it makes your computer’s and browser’s security vulnerable it leaves a hole for other malevolent viruses to infect your PC faster and without a struggle. So by eliminating this browser hijacker, you do yourself a big favor, by keeping your personal data safe and preventing future risky infections.

To deleteSweetSearch.com go to the Control Panel -> Add and Remove programs list and uninstall it from there. It is important that you remove all other programs installed with the hijacker, as some of them might redownload or reset back browser settings. Scan with Spyhunter as it identifies such programs quite well. You should also check browser extensions for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. If you do not see Sweetsearch.com listed, you should use antimalware tools like Spyhunter and scan your computer with it. Uninstalling the program from your computer doesn’t change your search providers, it only stops ads appearing on your computer. You will have to do it manually by yourself. Depending on the browser you are using, follow the instructions below:

On Internet explorer:

1. Click arrow on the right of search box.
2. Do the following: on IE8-9 choose Manage Search Providers, on IE7 click Change Search Defaults.
3. Remove Sweetsearch.com from the list.

On Firefox :

1. Enter “about:config” in url bar. This will open settings page.
2. Type “Keyword.url” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
3. Type “browser.search.defaultengine” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
4. Type “browser.search.selectedengine” in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
5. Search for “browser.newtab.url”. Right-click and reset. This will make sure that the search page won’t launch on each new tab.

On Google Chrome:

1. Click 3 horizontal lines icon on browser toolbar.
2. Select Settings.
3. Select Basics ->Manage Search engines.
4. Remove unnecessary search engines from list.
5. Go back to Settings. On Startup choose Open blank page ( you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).

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